I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.

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Christmas, to me, is as many people as possible happy. – Tupac Shakur

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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?

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It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.

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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. – Charles Dickens

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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

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If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up.

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You make up the best memories I have. -- Kanye West

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Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.

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